Yesterday, I did something that I’ve been putting off. If you read my blog regularly, you know we’ve been cleaning out in anticipation of moving later this year. Sometimes cleaning out is easy. You look at something and think, why did I keep that piece of sh_t? Or, sometimes cleaning out is hard. We all…
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Slice of Life: Purses, Totes, and Bags
I am currently reading The Tattooist of Auschwitz by Heather Morris. The book has been scary and enjoyable all at the same time. Look for a review in a future post. The main character in the book, the Tattooist or “Tatowierer” as he is referred to by the SS in the novel carries a bag…
Silent Sunday: Hawaiian Plants and Trees
Today is Silent Sunday. On this day each week, I post photographs of my own on a theme of my choosing. I love taking photos of nature, plants, and landscapes. Enjoy! There is no permission to duplicate these photos in any means without my express permission.
Cadaver Lab
It’s Saturday morning and we’re sitting around talking about our cadaver lab experiences. What else do you do on a Saturday?! My husband had this experience in medical school. Our son visited such a lab in high school for his anatomy class. I, while a nursing student, had to dissect cats, frogs, and sheep eyeballs…
Poetry Friday: Driving in Snow and Wordle
It seems I’ve been all over the place this week, starting it in Iowa four hours from my home and ending it at our cabin, back home, and then three hours in the other direction to our cabin. It’s a snowy day here in the upper midwest. There’s a lot you can notice when you…
Slice of Life: Off-Broadway Theater in the Corn Belt
Over the five years during which my son has been a grad student in Ames, Iowa, we have attended many theater performances together. It has become somewhat of a tradition for us, a delayed birthday treat for him that I can also take part in each year. We both enjoy theater, especially musical theater, and…
Silent Sunday: Haleakala (House of the Sun)
Today is Silent Sunday. All photos are copyrighted by Carol Labuzzetta, 2022. There is no permission to reproduce in any form without her express permission. Thank you.
Is this the Start of a Busy Season?
Could February be the start of our busy season? Maybe! Today we took the first step towards a big move! We had a real estate agent come and appraise our home. We’ve lived here since 2007 making a move within our town from a suburban subdivision lot to a larger, 3.25-acre lot on the edge…
Haiku on Hawaii
I had forgotten, since our last trip that there is a town on the island of Maui named Haiku. I knew of it since I believe this is the town where we started and finished our bike ride down Haleakala Volcano on Christmas Day in 2015. But, I was not writing at the time of…
What’s there to do on the island of Maui?
Obviously, there’s enough here to bring us back three times since 2009. The first time we stayed we were “feeling our way along” and our three boys were young at the time. Their age and worries about their safety limited some of our activities but we still had the chance to do some special things….